Bernard Jenkin: I should correct the right hon. Gentleman. The correct title of the group to which he referred, to which I and others such as Mr Speaker and one of the Deputy Speakers, the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs Laing), belonged, was called the White Guard.
	I want to pick up the right hon. Gentleman’s point about the letter. It says:
	“The Government wishes to use civil servants to explain the position arising from the renegotiation during the purdah period.”
	If the referendum is not going to be about the Government’s deal with the EU, what is it going to be about? The letter says that the Government want to use the government machinery for precisely the purpose that they should not be allowed to use it for.